Episode 02: Decepticons Attack!
Setting: Mojave Desert, May 3rd 2008
The pilot of the A-10 Thunderbolt II checked his sensors one last time. His squadron had been flying a routine training exercise when they had suddenly been ordered to investigate some sort of disturbance out in the desert. The pilot hadn't bothered to ask why. A whole lot of strange things went on back at the base, things which he didn't bother to ask about.
"Capt., all my sensors are malfunctioning"
"Yeah mine to", the pilot said has he looked down at his instruments, "something's definitely wrong here"
"Captain, there's something going on below us!"
The pilot glanced out of his cockpit and looked down. At first he saw nothing but the endless sea of sand of the dessert, but then something strange caught his attention.
"Look at that", one of his pilots said.
What they saw, was a glowing purple orb, just floating a few feet off the ground. Slowly, the orb started expanding outward.
"Looks like a black hole", the Pilot said, "I'm going in for a closer look"
"Roger Capt., following your lead"
The twelve aircraft descended towards the quickly growing orb, and then they all realized what it was.
"Capt. That's a black hole!"
"It must be what's causing our sensors to malfunction", the Pilot said, "hey, somethings coming out of it!"
By now, the black hole had grown to enormous size. And then suddenly, faster than the Pilot could blink, something came out of it and the hole abrubtly disappeared.
"What is that?", one of the pilots asked.
"Don't know, but I'm reporting this", the Pilot said, "HQ this is Hawk 1 come in, over"
"This is HQ, we read you Hawk 1"
"We've discovered an unknown object in the desert. Our coordinates are—"
"Capt. It's attacking us!"
The Pilot didn't get a chance to respond. Because at that moment, his plane was destroyed.
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Thundercracker chuckled to himself has he destroyed a second of the Earthlings primitive fighters. "Primitive, but they'll do", the Decepticon thought to himself. Thundercracker lowered the plasma rifle he had been using briefly in order to scan one of the attacking fighters.
"This shouldn't take too long", he said to himself has he scanned them, "almost done now"
After the scan was finished, Thundercracker decided to test out his new form.
"Transform!", he said.
Thundercracker then transformed into an exact replica of an A-10 Thunderbolt II and flew into the air at top speed.
"Not too bad", Thundercracker thought to himself, "now let's see what it can do".
Thundercracker turned around and charged straight at the oncoming fighters.
"Eat this Earthlings!", he shouted has he fired all of his weapons at the remaining fighters.
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Setting: Area 51
Has soon as the Warp Gate opened, Starscream and Skywarp stepped into total chaos. They appeared in what was obviously some sort of millitary installation, and the Earthlings started attacking them on sight.
"What happened to the rest of us?", Skywarp asked has he casually stepped on a few Earthling soldiers.
"The Warp Gate must of malfunctioned", Starscream replied, "it probably sent us to random locations across this useless planet"
The two Decepticons easily fought off their human attackers, destroying everything that was sent after them.
"These Earthlings sure don't put up a good fight", Skywarp said has he shot several of the Earthlings fighters down.
"We're wasting time here", Starscream snarled, "we have to get out of here and find the others!"
"Aww you're no fun Starscream", Skywarp said, "let's at least get a little makeover while we're here"
Skywarp turned around just in time to see one of the Earthlings aircraft fire several missiles at him. Skywarp quickly sidestepped all of the missiles and then began to scan it. At the same time, Starscream had completely demolished several aircraft hangars, uncovering one in particular.
"This looks interesting", Starscream said to himself has he looked down at the aircraft below him.
Starscream then started scanning it. A few moments later Starscream finished scanning and turned into his new alternate mode.
"Skywarp let's get out of here!", Starscream said has he flew away at top speed, Skywarp following right behind him.
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Setting: Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms
Inside the M1 Abrams, the crew felt very secure underneath their tanks heavy armor. They were conducting a night time live fire training exercise in the middle of California's Mojave Desert. Everything was going perfectly normal when they suddenly heard explosions. All of the crew members looked at each other. Even though it was a live fire exercise, they weren't supposed to be attacking each other, just practicing with their tanks at night.
"Pvt. Open the hatch and see what's going on out there"
The private did has he was told and opened the tanks hatch and took a look outside. In the dead of night, he couldn't see anything so he put on his night vision goggles and was shocked at what he saw. Off in the distance, he could see the smoking ruins of several tanks.
"Something must have gone wrong", the private said, "I see at least five downed Abrams but nothing else"
"Commander", said one of the crewmembers, "you'd better listen to this"
Over the tanks speakers, the four crew men listened to what was being said over the radio.
"This is Bravo Leader! We're under attack out here! Send reinforcements"
"What's your position Bravo Leader?", the tanks commander asked.
"Commander, I can see them!", the Pvt. said still looking out the tanks hatch, "they're about one klick east of us"
The tank started moving in that direction and the Pvt. watched through his night vision goggles. He could see the tanks firing off in the distance at something but he couldn't tell what it was. He watched has one by one the Bravo Company got wiped out.
"What the hell was that?", the Commander asked.
"I don't know Sir, I can't see anything"
Suddenly a bright blue light shown over the tank. The brightness of it temporarily blinded the Pvt. who still had on his night vision goggles. The Commanders hatch next to him opened and the tanks Commander stuck his head out.
"What's going on out here?", he demanded has he looked around.
The Commander turned around and then gasped. He almost didn't believe what he saw. In fact, it was the last thing he saw.
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Overkill fired his cannon at the Earthling vehicle, destroying it in a single shot. After destroying the tank, the massive Decepticon looked around at the empty desert.
"What a dump", he muttered has he looked around, "I wonder where the others are?"
Suddenly Overkill's communicator started going off.
"This is Megatron. All Decepticons converge on my position. I repeat, all Decepticons converge on my position"
After receiving the transmission Overkill abruptly transformed into one of the tanks that he had just finished destroying, and sped off.
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Setting: Earth, Autobot Headquarters May 3rd 2008
"Well Optimus the Nemesis crash landed on Earth, in pieces that is", Outback explained to his leader, "but Teletraan 1 detected several Decepticons so some of them survived"
"Let's just hope Megatron didn't", Prowl added.
"I don't think it's that simple you two", Optimus Prime said, "we all know how resourceful Megatron is. He probably found some way to get off Nemesis".
"So what do you wanna do Optimus?", Ironhide asked in his gruff voice.
"There's nothing we really can do", Optimus said, "except wait for the Decepticons to make their move. Until then I want everybody on red alert"
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Setting: Decepticon Earth Headquarters
Megatron scowled has he looked at what was left of his ship. It had fallen to pieces when it crashed on Earth, although the bridge and most of the surrounding portions of the ship had survived and crashed on a small island in the middle of the ocean. Megatron sat in his command chair, and looked at the Decepticons in front of him. All had acquired alternate modes some way or another, but that didn't matter to Megatron.
"Soundwave have you gotten any of the equipment working yet?", Megatron asked.
"Yes Megatron. All computers have been restored, has well as a short range warp gate", Soundwave answered.
"Excellent. Begin locating the nearest source of Energon at once", Megatron ordered.
"Yes Megatron"
While Soundwave was at the computer, Scourge and Rampage stepped onto the bridge. They had been looking around to see what could be salvaged.
"Megatron, decks 2, 3, and 4 appear to be intact entirely", Rampage reported.
"But the rest of the ship is scattered all over the planet", Scourge said, "do you think we're the only ones who survived the crash?"
"It doesn't matter now", Megatron replied, "what matters is getting as much energon as we can off this miserable planet and shipping it back to Cybertron"
"Megatron, energon has been located"
"Excellent", Megatron said standing up and walking over to the computer, "show me"
Soundwave pressed a button and a holographic display of a city appeared.
"There is a large deposit of energon directly beneath this city", Soundwave explained, "we can demolish the city and establish a mining station"
"Good. I've been wanting to blow up something", Rampage said, "what are we waiting for?"
"Not just yet Rampage", Megatron said, "Remember, someone shot us down, and that means that the Autobots are probably here was well. We'll plan out our strategy, and then attack tomorrow"
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Setting: Center City, California. May 4th 2008 1:45 P.M.
"Wow", Hector said, "there's nothing left of the place"
Hector, Lindsey and Willis looked at the rubble that had once been a shopping mall. They watched has the construction crews hauled massive amounts of rubble away.
"Can you believe we were here last night?", Willis asked, "we almost got smashed"
"I'm only sorry those stupid Speed Freaks didn't get smashed. That would save me a lot of headaches", Hector said.
"Hector", Lindsey said glaring at him.
"What?", Hector said shrugging, "I'm just saying what we're all thinking"
Willis turned around and headed back towards his car. Hector and Lindsey followed him.
"So where are we going now?", Hector asked.
"I don't care", Willis replied, "wherever you guys want to go as long as its away from here"
The three got into Willis's Honda and drove away. Now that the mall had been destroyed, one of their favorite places to go was gone. So the three just drove around aimlessly for awhile.
"I know", Lindsey said, "why don't we go to the park?"
"The park?", Hector and Willis said in unison.
"Aww there's nothing but kids stuff at the park", Hector said.
"Still it's something to do", Lindsey said.
"I don't care", Willis said, "let's just go there"
About thirty minutes later they were at Lincoln Park. The park, was large park where people went to relax and talk walks. Mostly however, it was where parents brought their kids to play on the park playground. However there were a few basketball courts that some older kids played on.
"I'm bored", Hector said has he laid down on a park bench, "let's go somewhere else"
"You aren't going anywhere", a familiar voice said.
Willis turned around to see Trent Barker and his gang behind him. He was leaning against another one of his cars. This one was a jet black Chevy Avalanche with flames stenciled on it and chrome rims. With him, were four other members of his gang that Willis instantly recognized.
The first, was Darius Parker. Parker was 16, the same age as Willis, but a full foot taller and with an added hundred pounds of muscle. He was a dark skinned African-American with cornrows. He wore a blue T-shirt with a black leather jacket and baggy black jeans.
Then there was Marcus Owens. Like Parker Marcus was big and muscular. His jet-black hair was in a buzz cut and he had piercing icy blue eyes. He had on a black T-shirt and a pair of white dickies pants.
Roy Burton, was another one of Trents closer friends. He was shorter than the rest, and had red hair. He had on a white T-shirt with a L.A. Lakers hoody and a pair of jeans. Lastly, there was Aimi Nemura.
Aimi was a Japanese girl, and an attractive one at that. She was tall for a girl, and had her jet black hair tied into a pony tail with two strands framing her stern face. She had on a black tank top with the words "SlipKnoT", written across it in red letters.
"What do you want Trent?", Lindsey asked.
"Me and Willis never got a chance to race last night. I thought I'd just come over here and offer him a rematch", Trent said.
"Leave us alone Trent", Hector said, "or you'll regret it"
"You shut up!", Roy said taking a step towards Hector and pushing him.
Hector, now angry raised his fist to take a swing at Roy but Parker grabbed him and pushed him to the ground with little effort.
"Stay right there", Parker said glaring at Hector.
Trent walked over to Willis and smirked at him.
"As I was saying before some prick interrupted me, we never got a chance to race", Trent said, "the stakes are still the same. You beat me to the constructions site, and I get you a new ride"
"I don't want anything from you, except for you to leave me alone!", Willis growled at him.
Little did the teenagers know, that they were being watched…
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To all the Earthlings who saw him, Soundwave must've looked like a simple satellite truck. But that was exactly what Soundwave wanted them to think. Soundwave was parked across the street from the park, and watched with mild amusement has he saw the group of Earthlings arguing over something. But that wasn't the reason he was there.
"Megatron. The energon deposit is directly below these coordinates", Soundwave said has he observed the park.
"Good. I've already dispatched Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker to clear the area for us. Any sign of Autobots?"
"Negative. Laserbeak has not detected anything"
Laserbeak was one of the smaller Transformers that Soundwave stored inside him. To an Earthling, he looked like nothing more than a R/C fighter jet. But in reality, it was the unit that Soundwave used for aerial reconnaissance.
"Be on the lookout Soundwave. Don't begin your attack until Starscream and the others get there"
"Yes Megatron"
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In the sky above Center City, an F-35, A-10, and Apache were flying rapidly towards their target.
"Looks like we have our work cut out for us eh Skywarp?", Thundercracker said has he looked down at the city.
"You bet", Skywarp said, "I can't wait to try out these new plasma missiles!"
"You'll have plenty of time", Starscream said.
"Stop chattering you tfools!", Megatron barked over their communicators, "hurry up and get rid of that filthy Earth city!"
"You heard Megatron", Starscream said, "attack!"
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Willis's Father was a scientists that worked for the military on several of its projects. Growing up, Willis had been to all kinds of military bases, and was no stranger to the sound of jet engines. So when he heard that familiar roar pounding in his ears, he instantly knew something was wrong. Willis looked up in the sky to see two fighter jets flying well below the skyline.
"Uh-oh", Willis said, "they aren't supposed to fly their planes this low"
"Trent man, I gotta bad feeling about this", Parker said.
Parkers bad feelings were confirmed has the two fighters flew directly over them. The force of the wind the two planes generated was enough to knock them all down to the ground.
"What the hell was that?", Marcus said jumping to his feet.
"Very bad news", Aimi said has she watched.
They all watched in horror has the fighters pulled up and then did barrel rolls to right themselves. That was when they fired their missiles.
"Watch out!", Willis yelled has he dived out of the way.
But he didn't need two. The missiles hit a nearby building, destroying it completely.
"Oh shit, there's another one!", Roy yelled has he pointed in the sky.
Willis looked up to see an Apache attack helicopter firing its weapons at several skyscrapers. One by one, the buildings started to fall.
"Come on! Let's get the hell outta here!", Trent yelled has he ran towards the Avalanche.
"Willis for once I agree with him!", Lindsey yelled has she started running towards Willis's car.
Hector and Willis both ran after her and scrambled into the car. Willis didn't even bother to make sure the doors were shut, he just drove away from the City has fast has he could.
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Meanwhile, a police car was several blocks away when the explosions started. Had it been a normal police car, with a police officer inside, it probably would've reported the incident to police HQ. But this wasn't a normal police car. Prowl abruptly did a full 180 degree turn and headed straight towards where the explosion were coming from, putting on his sirens as well.
"Optimus, the Decepticons are attacking the city!", Prowl reported, "I'm on my way, send reinforcements!"
"Don't worry Prowl. Wheeljack and Outback are nearby, I'll be there as soon as I can. Prime out"
About a block away, a metallic green 2008 Mustang Bullit with black racing stripes did suddenly made a sharp turn around a corner and pulled up alongside Prowl.
"Optimus wasn't kidding when he said you where nearby", Prowl remarked.
"Nope", Wheeljack said, "I'm just glad I finally get to do something other than tinker around in my lab for once"
At that same moment, a 2008 Hummer H3T sped up behind them and to the right of Prowl.
"Sorry I'm late mates", Outback said in his Australian sounding accent.
"What are you talking about Autobot?", a voice said from above, "you're just in time for the party!"
"Oh no!", Prowl said, "It's Skywarp"
In the air above them, the attack helicopter fired off its quad-barreled plasma cannon.
"Eat this Autobots!", Skywarp yelled has he flew over them.
"Evasive action, now!", Prowl ordered.
"Roger!", Wheeljack and Outback said in unison.
Wheeljack and Outback both took off in opposite directions at an intersection while Prowl headed straight towards the park which was at the end of the street. He was almost there when Thundercracker suddenly appeared in front of him and fired off two plasma missiles at him.
"Whoa!", Prowl said.
Prowl turned hard to the right barely missing one of the projectiles that had been launched at him. The other missile barely hit him but it was enough to send him spiraling out of control. Prowl transformed into his robot mode and slid straight into the wall of a building, denting it.
In the air, Thundercracker had transformed into his robot form and was standing ontop of the building Prowl had crashed into.
"Now, I'll just finish you off!"
Thundercracker aimed both of the plasma cannons that were on his wrist at the downed Autbot. Before he could fire though, a purple beam of energy shot passed his face barely missing his head. Thundercracker would've fallen off the building if he couldn't fly.
"Take that Thundercracker!", Wheeljack yelled has he fired his photon rifle up at Thundercracker.
The agile Decepticon easily dodged all of Wheeljacks shots and transformed back into his vehicle mode.
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The city was in a state of complete and utter chaos. The destruction that was being caused made it almost impossible to find a quick way out of the city, and just about every major street or road was blocked. Now Willis was driving his car down an empty street has fast has it could possibly go.
"Willis slow down! You're going over the speed limit!", Lindsey protested.
"Uh, Lindsey, have you noticed that we're being attacked by airplanes?", Willis yelled at her.
Willis made a left turn and started heading towards the nearest interstate.
"Don't worry you guys", Willis said, "I'll get us out of this"
Has soon as Willis said that, a purple satellite truck suddenly pulled out of an intersection directly in front of Willis's car.
"Willis look out man!", Hector yelled.
Willis swerved hard to the right barely missing the truck and crashing into a street light. Willis's skull would've been shattered had into been for the airbag going off.
"Y-You guys ok?", Willis asked.
"Yeah, we're fine", Hector said.
Willis opened the door to his car and staggered out of it, Lindsey and Hector followed him.
"My arm", Lindsey said, "I think its dislocated"
"Don't worry Lindsey", Willis said, "maybe this guy can help"
Hector walked over to the satellite truck, which appeared to be intact.
"Hey Mr.!", Hector called, "think you can give us a ride outta here?"
Suddenly, to their surprise, the truck did something that none of them could have thought possible: It transformed into a giant robot. Willis, Hector and Lindsey looked up at it in awe and horror at the same time.
"Oh my God!", Lindsey said, "I-I can't believe it!"
And then suddenly, the robot started to speak. It's voice was a monotone, and sounded like a computerized human voice.
"Earthlings, you shall be destroyed", the Robot spoke.
"Not on my watch Soundwave!"
The Robot looked up and turned to the right just in time to see a black Ferrari FXX with red racing stripes charging towards it. The Robot pulled out a gun and started shooting at the rapidly approaching Ferrari. The speeding car easily dodged the shots and then transformed itself into another giant robot. The robot that had been called Soundwave didn't have time to the react has this new robot tackled him, knocking him to the ground.
Has the three humans watched the two robots fighting, an ambulance pulled up in front of them. The doors opened revealing that absolutely no one was inside driving it.
"Get in!", the Ambulance ordered.
"What the heck?", Willis yelled shocked at the fact that it was driving itself and talking to them.
"Don't just stand there get in!"
"No way I'm getting in that!", Willis said taking a step back from it.
Willis's mind was soon changed, by the sight of a LAV-25 Armored Car charging down the street straight at them!
"Outta my way punks!", the Armored Car yelled has it started firing its chain gun, cackling all the time.
The sight of that motivated Willis, Lindsey, and Hector to pile into the ambulance without any more arguments. The tires screeched has the Ambulance sped off and drove away.
"What's going on?", Lindsey asked.
"You kids were in the wrong place at the wrong time", the Ambulance explained, "if Sideswipe and I hadn't been there Soundwave would've vaporized you"
"Sideswipe? Soundwave? What in the world are you talking about?"
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"That Autobots getting away!"
"Let him go Rampage. We have business to take care of", Megatron said, "destroy the the others!"
"Yes Sir Megatron!", Rampage said.
The Decepticon laughed has it started firing off its cannon at the Autobots Outback and Wheeljack, who were hiding behind some rubble while trying to fend off aerial attacks from Skywarp. Although his shots were poorly aimed, they succeeded in distracting the two Autobots from Skywarp.
"Die!", Skywarpd yelled has he fired off another missile barrage.
Wheeljack and Outback dived out of the way, only to expose themselves to Megatron and Rampage. Rampage and Megatron both transformed into their robot forms.
"Skywarp, Rampage, cover me!", Megatron ordered.
"Yes Sir!", Both Decepticons said in unison has they unloaded their weapons at both the Autobots.
"Wheeljack get outta here!", Outback said, "we have to regroup with the others if we stay here we're dead!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!", Wheeljack said has he transformed back into a Mustang and drove away, Outback hot on his tails.
The two Autobots drove through the city has Skywarp and Rampage chased after them.
"Split up!", Wheeljack said has he turned into an alley.
While Wheeljack went down the alley Outback charged down the middle of the street, getting Skywarp to follow after him.
"You wanna play tag you stupid Decepticon?", Outback yelled, "well just follow me!"
Meanwhile, Wheeljack had come to a dead end in the alley and transformed into his robot form.
"Well, well, well", Rampage said from behind him, "well look what we have here, a little lost Autobot"
Wheeljack turned around and pulled out a photon pistol. Rampage just laughed has the plasma cannon on his shoulder zeroed in on Wheeljack's chest.
"I won't even give you a chance to surrender, I'll just finish you off now", Rampage said with a sick grin on his face.
What Rampage didn't see, was that Prowl was standing right behind him, with two heat blades in both of his hands.
"Say goodbye Wheeljack", Rampage said.
Just has Rampage was about to fire his cannon, Prowl made his move. With one of his heat blades, he stabbed Rampage in the back, the blade poking out through his chest. Rampage screeched in pain has Prowl pulled the heat blade out and then kicked Rampage to the ground.
"You'll…pay…for that", Rampage choked out has Prowl and Wheeljack transformed and sped off to find the other Autobots.
PKendall317: This was getting kind of long so I decided to end it here. The rest of the fight continues in the next episode so stay tuned kids, we'll be right back.